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Friday, February 17, 2012

AZMEX I3 12-2-12

AZMEX I3 12 FEB 2012

Note: take a good look at the numbers

migrationUnited States returned to Mexico more than 11,000 child migrants in 2011

Mexico. - A total of 11,520 children and adolescents who tried to get in alone and without documents to the U.S. in 2011 were returned to Mexican soil by U.S. authorities, said the National Migration Institute (INM).

"In Mexico, 11,520 children and adolescents migrants traveling unaccompanied by an adult relative, returned by U.S. authorities were assisted by Officers Child Protection INM, between January and December last year 2011" , the institution said in a brief statement.

The Institute did not specify the nationalities of the children. According to Mexican government figures, an around 140,000 immigrants, mostly from Central America, cross the country annually for the United States, although NGOs raise this figure to around 400 thousand.

Undocumented immigrants are targeted in Mexico for extortion, theft, abuse and murder at the hands of organized crime and in some cases it has been alleged complicity on the part of authorities.